I’m not really a stand-alone journalist, as some like to call bloggers. And I’m not sure if I am a “blogger” either, since I have people working with me some of the time. Bloggers, I think, are supposed to work on their own.

I continue to work as a news reporter, I try to get out and about as much as I can. I interview people, I file stories, I write columns. And I know that journalism requires a team of people, performing various tasks.

Journalism has always been a team effort and this has not changed. In fact, I don't know any top blog sites that are not a product of a team effort to some degree. And that’s because most of the top blog sites are written by professional journalists--they know the value of a great team.

My first collaborator on this project is Candida Kutz--she asked me not to call her the “Bianca Jagger of the IT world,” and I will respect her wishes :-)

Candida is setting up the software infrastructure for the media projects we are developing. She has a huge amount of technology and editorial experience. Her intimate knowledge of the editorial production process--combined with her technology skills in web site publishing systems, search engine optimization, running online advertising campaigns, etc,--are rare to find in one person. Yet this is precisely the kind of skill set that is essential to the success of any online media venture these days.

Candida was one of the project leaders on the very first large multimedia hypertext project from Apple Computer and Whole Earth Review. She was my managing editor when I was publishing the SF newspaper, “The Street -- A View from the Haight.” We were among the first to adapt emerging newsletter desktop publishing technologies to publishing a newspaper.) She was a book editor at Matthew Bender for many years, and did her stint in senior content management positions at various dotcoms.... more bio details on the way plus personal introductions to the rest of my growing band of collaborators.